Sent for Mpact: Mpact Transit + Community Conference Returning to Portland to Celebrate 30 Years

**This is a joint release from Mpact, TriMet, Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and Metro.**

[Portland, Oregon, April 22, 2025] – The 2025 Mpact Transit + Community conference, founded in Portland in 1995 as Rail~Volution, is returning to Portland in October to celebrate 30 years. Stakeholders involved with the conference then and now are meeting in Portland this week to plan the 2025 conference and unveil the original artwork commissioned for the conference.

The 2025 Mpact Transit + Community conference will be in Portland, Oregon, October 26-29, 2025. Since its founding in Portland thirty years ago as Rail~Volution, the conference has become the leading national gathering focused on transit and transit-oriented communities. The conference, which changed its name to Mpact Transit + Community in 2022, is produced by Mpact, a national nonprofit organization. The 2025 local hosts are TriMet, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, and Oregon Metro, the same hosts as for the first national conference in 1995. The theme for the 2025 conference is The Evolving Livable City.

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